The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-24
PARTS OF MISSOURI, KANSAS, ARKANSAS
AND TEXAS VISITED.
Towns Wiped Ont and the Earth
Swept Clean.
Terrible loss Of Lie In the Destruction Of Farm
and Town Dwellings, -Nothias
Could Resist n.


killed at different points throughout the
county, and an incalculable amount of
damage done to- all kinds of property.
Prescott is literally wiped out of exist
ence, not one building being left stand
ing To mark the site of a once prosperous
and thriving place. Reports are coming
in from all over the country of damage
by the terrible storm. 1t was a genuine
cyclone, but came from the northwest
instead of the southwest as is usual.
Hail fell all over the county, some stones
measuring I 3 inches in circumference.
THE EvAsTATIoN STILL MORE GENERAL.
ST. LOUIS. April 23.-Special dispatch
es published this morning show that
fearful cyclones, tornadoes and hail
storms swept over a considerable part of
Western and Southwestern Missouri,
Southwestern Kansas and Northern Ar
kansas on Thursday evening. causing
great loss of life and destruction of prop
erty, as well as manning a large number
of people.
A special from Greenville, Miss says
that that section of the country was Wis
tied by terrible thunder storm followed
by heavy hail that killed live stock and
injured many colored persons in Bolivar
County. The town of Huntington was
nearly demolished. A new hotel and
Robertsons store and dwelling are
wrecks. The hotel. Remus' dwelling.
Benson's residence and several negro
cabins were wrecked and the debris
blown several hundred yards from their
former site. No one was injured. The
damage will exceed 5000.
In Bates and Vernon Counties, Mo.
the destruction was very great. West
and south of Rich Hill the storm ragged
with terrific violence, and its track is
strewn for miles with all kinds of debris,
including crushed and splintered dwell
ings and outhouses, dead animals and
poultry, bed-clotbing, wearing apparel
and all kinds of farm property. The es-
timated loss to property Is upwards of
100000. Six persons were killed in the
neighborhood of the towns of Hume and
Sprague, and a number seriously and
some fatally injured.
HOUSES BLOWN To ATOMS
Humble Station ON the Pacific road
was destroyed, only one house being left
standing. DIR. Smiths house, three miles
from Rich Hill, was blown to atoms and
Mrs. Smith fatally injured. Her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Ryan, and her two child
rem We're also badly hurt. Two hired
men ON the place also received injuries
All the stables and granaries on the
Bruce place We're demolished. At the Mil
ler farm, three miles west of Sprague's
splendid residence. barns and outhouses
were destroyed.
Nine cattle, a number of no IS and other
stock were killed, and Miller and his wife
and baby We're blown into well and
drowned. The farm houses of the fol-
lowing persons are entirely destroyed:
Samuel Porter. George Hibler, l..
Marenop, j. Baumh, III. Overman.
George Daniels, MIR. Gaudier, Samuel
Bealy. l. G.. Robinson. William Betty
and William Pettis. Tatters house took
fire and burned. William Kennett's
house was blown down and burned up.
Mrs. kennett had very narrow escape
from burning. as she was pinioned under
some 4imber and was only rescued by
the heroic efforts of her husband
Montgomery and Greenridge school
houses were wrecked. The Methodist
Episcopal Church at Sprague was demol-
ished. Il. +. Baker q Coz lumber yard
was scattered over the prairie in every
direction.
The following houses are destroyed :
Mrs. Wainscott, Will Groves. Mrs. Riley
Wesley Meeker. Hainline's blacksmith
shop and Smith Bassett's livery stable.
THE FUNNEL-sHAPED CLOUD.
In the lower part of Lynn County
Kan, a regular funnel-shaped twister
made descent about 6 O'Clock. seven
miles northwest of Prescott. Every farm
house in the path of the storm was de
molished. and every house in Prescott
was ruined.
Four miles from Prescott Flinn's fine
residence was mashed flat. and Mrs
Finn and three small children were
gerously hurt. Jacob Brook and wife
and one son; William McPold, wife and
child. also of this vicinity. were fatally
injured.
A few miles from this scene w. =
Gogat, Mrs. NJ. O'Dell. Mr.. Hogan. wifi,
and two children, had taken refuge in !
storm cellar when eight cows fell OF
them through the roof and all wer,
severely hurt
William Browningburg's family founI
refuge in a storm cave while 5000
house was scattered over the fields.
Ten miles northwest of Prescott, Mrs
Sarah Crane was killed and her famil,
injured by the crushing of the house
SWEPT NEARLY CLEAN.
In a distance of twenty miles only on,
house is known To have stood the storm
III. c. Trip, of Kansas City. was stand
ing in the door of Manlove Brothers gro
Gerry store in Prescott. when the build
ing was destroyed and he was killed.
The following buildings. left stand
ing in Prescott, are stuck full of tin,
bers: {. r. Underwood's residence: tn
Baptist and Methodist churches; w. II
Billingsley's harness store; Pertain
meat market and the Prescott House ar
among other buildings that were destroy
ed. Nearly every house at Miami june